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Old 03-27-2011, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC NoVA
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one source says 24 and another says 26. regardless, how is this possible when gang membership doesn't seem to have changed much (at least from what i understand)?

edited; you can delete this thread. hopefully my question will be answered in the other thread.
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Old 03-27-2011, 07:18 PM
 
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Gang memebership and activity are two very different things. Membership can be high for a particular 'set', with activity in a certain municipality proportionately lower, over several 'turfs'. And Compton's demographic has shifted gradually, but quite significantly, over the last thirty years from being predominantly Afro-American to more latino. Being so close to Los Angeles police's CRASH presence and The County Sherrif's Gang Task Force, has also made doing gangsta biz quite inconvenient in the CPT.
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Old 03-27-2011, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY $$$
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Gang memebership and activity are two very different things. Membership can be high for a particular 'set', with activity in a certain municipality proportionately lower, over several 'turfs'. And Compton's demographic has shifted gradually, but quite significantly, over the last thirty years from being predominantly Afro-American to more latino. Being so close to Los Angeles police's CRASH presence and The County Sherrif's Gang Task Force, has also made doing gangsta biz quite inconvenient in the CPT.
yea but la county has thousands of latino gangs so i dont think demographics has nothing to do. Aren't their more latino gangs then afro Americans?
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Old 03-27-2011, 10:48 PM
 
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They've switched from banging to the more benign sing-off format: "Homie-Idol".
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Old 03-27-2011, 11:00 PM
 
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yea but la county has thousands of latino gangs so i dont think demographics has nothing to do. Aren't their more latino gangs then afro Americans?
Sure there are. Not only more gangs, but larger numbers. But that doesnt have to mean that the activity in general is at the level it was when the population scales tipped more towards Afro American, as it did 30 years ago. And it also doesnt mean that there is as much concentration, per capita among, Compton's smaller population, as in the Los Angeles area.
Thats what I think accounts for the noticable decrease in violent activity. Which is agood thing, wouldnt you agree?
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